After returning from Rome for the month-long Synod on Young People, the
Faith and Vocational Discernment held in October, Bishop Frank Caggiano,
the Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut joined with others to
discuss takeaways from their experience during a Nov. 13 Theology on Tap event.

As they’ve ministered to African American Catholics in U.S. parishes for the past 125 years, the Josephite priests and brothers witnessed history, including the impact of two World Wars, a Great Depression and the Civil Rights Movement.

With a solemn Mass, the mournful toll of bells, and patriotic songs and poems, more than 300 gathered at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington on Nov. 11 to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I and to honor those men and women who have served in the armed services.

Dawn Eden Goldstein writes under the pen name Dawn Eden and is the author of several books, including My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints; Remembering God’s Mercy: Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from Painful Memories, and The Thrill of the Chaste published by Ave Maria Press.

Eileen Dombo, PhD, an associate professor at the National Catholic School of Social Work at The Catholic University of America, serves as the chairman of the Archdiocese of Washington’s Child Protection Advisory Board.

Father Thomas Berg, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York who serves as a professor of moral theology and vice-rector at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York, is the author of Hurting in the Church: A Way Forward for Wounded Catholics,published in 2016 by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing.

During the ninth annual White Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Oct. 28, Msgr. Charles Pope, the pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Parish in Washington, said just as Jesus healed the blind man in that day’s Gospel, we all need to be healed so we can see the dignity of people with disabilities.

The parish already has a 24 hour Adoration chapel, but by placing the Eucharist in a large monstrance in the main sanctuary, the parish is opening it up to more people than can fit in their small, 12 seat chapel.

On a sunny fall morning in October, members of the third grade class at St. Francis International School in Silver Spring stepped outside of their classroom, like they do every Wednesday, to plant lettuce in their school garden.

With a Mass, processions, and fellowship, about 800 people, mostly immigrants, gathered at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington on Oct. 14 to celebrate the canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero.

For two weeks this summer, a group of rising seniors from Gonzaga College High School spent their days combing through documents from the Georgetown University archives to find information about their school’s past ties to slavery.

Nearly 100 people gathered in the early morning hours Oct. 4 at St. Andrew Apostle Parish in Silver Spring to begin a 24-hour adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament in response to the sex abuse crisis that has rocked the Catholic Church in the United States.